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[Combe (William)] The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial title and 29 plates by George Cruikshank plates lightly browned, text foxed and with offsetting from plates, a few with nick to fore-edge, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, slight worming to head of joints,[Abbey, Life 356; Cohn 153; Tooley 151], T.Tegg, [1815]; The Tour Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, third edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, vignette title and 29 plates after Thomas Rowlandson some light soiling or browning, modern half morocco, Ackermann, 1813; [The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax], together 3 vol., vo1.1 with engraved title stating "ninth edition", hand-coloured aquatint vignette titles in vol.1 & 3 and 78 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson some light browning, pp.167-170 and one plate loose, original blind-stamped green cloth, spines pictorial gilt (a little faded), Nattali and Bond, [c.1850], [the last two cf.Abbey, Life 266-267 & Tooley 427-429], 8vo (5)